geekin it up in steinbeck town

So, I’m almost done with USENIX 2002 here in lovely Monterey. Tonight was the dessert reception at the aquarium (yes you read right). At one point I was eating an eclair while one hirsute hacker near me disputed with another about the relative virtues of assembly programming on the VAX versus M68K as a large grouper and two small rockfish looked over their shoulders and moved their fishy mouths as if to disagree with both of them.

I took some pictures mostly of fish and one of some famous hackers, which are famous if you’re a geek like me.

Tomorrow, after a couple of last sessions, it’s off to San Francisco for a WEEK of UNINHIBITED HEDONISM. Woo-hoo!

Mysteries of West Los Angeles

Near my job, next door to a flower shop and an AA meeting room, there is something called the Euripedes Barsanulfo Doctrine Center.

Web searching for Mr. Barsanulfo produces only pages in Portuguese, for which Google’s translations produce odd effects:

CHILD And SCHOOL

In this teeny one that it passes the future walks.
The child is the smile of the life embelezando the world.
Let us love this infant, offering to it the elements to changed itself into an honored citizen.
Let us transform our home into school of blessings and in them let us make masters on behalf of the love for the santificante task of superior construction.
Let us educate it, disciplining the impulses to it, but let us not forget in disciplining them, also, so that our voice possesss the heat of the example that designates the comment to it with the force of the accomplishment.
Therefore, in let us not forget them that to teach it is equally to suffer.
The first step of who teaches must be given in the direction to educate itself.
It is not educated being uneducated. It is not disciplined without being disciplined.
The child – fragile clay, base of all social construction – is, before everything, a duplicating machine. E is in this particular that if avulta the value of the School.
The School is not only one dedicated temple to the instruction. It is an altar for the cult of the education and a sanctuary for the love.
Schools confide and the crime will run away from the Land.
The primary Schools with the lights of the love and the goodness are taken advantage, and the wars will changed into arts macabras of the past.
In all the times the School has been the force more powerful than the world knows, making the campaign against the ignorance, the biggest adversary of the human spirit.
The brutality of ?tila if developed for lack of the aid of a School of alfabetiza??o.
The hitlerista savagery attempted against against the Civilization because the School if poluiu, changedding itself into quarter.
To domesticate they are enough relho and the rope, firm will in the impiedade, giving origin to the respect that is born in furnas of the fear. To educate, however, it is essential to love.
Who loves, generates affection and affinity.
In the School where the love if unfolds, the education if improves.
S?crates, in the ?gora of Atenas, and Christ, in the Mountain of the Galil?ia, reverenciaram the safe School that he educates and.
The child advances; the School waits; the adult helps.
All we are educators. We educate for that we make, we educate with what we say. Who does not educate in the positive direction, building, educates, in the negative direction, damaging the character.
It is educated, therefore, well or badly, according to proper possibilities.
When we love, however, we always educate well, because the love that if raises knows to listen to that voice different, of the reason, that corrects and repairs incessantly.
We respect the master and let us honor the School, arm and cradle of the future world.
E this teeny one that it goes there, is the man of tomorrow that it waits for us, since now.
Let us greet the child with the School – this modeladora nobleman of the generations human beings.

irc fun/cholera epidemic

<vorsprung> because it’s the “big match today” and I felt ill this morning
<vorsprung> i felt I had to come in to work or everyone would believe I was having a sick day under false pretences
<ignatz> and that’s how athletics leads to major epidemics.
<Skrewtape> Ban atheltics!
<Skrewtape> I wonder if I can’t type because I don’t care, or if I don’t care because I can’t type
<ignatz> patient zero in the Great cholera epidemic of 2002
<Skrewtape> Ir order to spread cholera at his workplace, wouldn’t he have to take a shit in the water cooler?
<ignatz> just in the crisper in the office fridge i think
<Skrewtape> But still, at that point it gets difficult to blame the world cup
<cogent> Wait a second. Are you telling me the water cooler is a bad place to shit?
<Skrewtape> It is if you have cholera
<vorsprung> also when you die of cholera don’t leave your corpse in the water cooler
<Skrewtape> Right
<Skrewtape> Or even part of it
<ignatz> it’s all in the Employee Handbook

north!

I’m excited. I get to go on a TRIP. Next week I’m in Monterey all week for USENIX, and the week after that I’m in San Francisco for an actual vacation. I am blessed.

Who wants to party with me in the bay area? RAISE DA ROOF etc, etc.